Abstract

The newly created Transports Authority was imagined with goals that are as ambitious as difficult to be reached. The author starts describing the long and intricate discussion of the bill in the Parliament, and then highlights the tasks and powers of the Authority, its costs and funding, it’s autonomy and independence. The core issues of the contribution relate to the relationship and interferences with other public administrations and other independent authorities. The author thinks that by the nature of its functions the Transport Authority is on the borderline between competition and regulation in the transport economic sectors.